time for festivals. yosakoi soran
Winter is saying adieu and am impatiently waiting for the spring to arrive at Hokkaido. Spring is already in Honshu, main island of Japan where Tokyo, Osaka and other cities are, and they are already having cherry blossoms! Hokkaido is the northern most island, and we have spring, cherry blossoms, everything late 
On top of everything, we have winter early!!!! sho!
Spring and we awake full of life and dandelions to a lot of festivals and parties. Let me get into the mood by browsing and bringing back some of the photos of the yesteryear.
Herez a set of photos from one of the greatest dance festival, the Yosakoi Soran. Yosakoi Soran was started just 12 years before, by a university student like me. It gained popularity so fast that it is one of the most vibrant festivals of Sapporo. Yosakoi Soran Festival combines Yosakoi-Festival in Kochi prefecture of Shikoku and Soran folk music of Hokkaido. 45,000 participants and 1.5 million audience, as reported over the internet.
Now you know why am waiting for winter to get over 
hey Sarat, you are at nagasaki right! saw your profile at oceanographers.net
cheers,, 🙂
Nice to see diverse information together.Very interesting indeed.Keep it up-Sarat
Nice to see diverse information together.Very interesting indeed.Keep it up
haha. could be 😉
ya dear, the student started it off with his friends. soon others joined, and a festival started! the snow festival here is also new and has a similar history or so, with the defense wing of japan also helping in and making it popular.
at these dance festivals you can see small kids to very old people joining the dance! some of them carry their babies and dance! they gave me costumes and i also joined them. it was fun! so once in a while i get out of the flow and took these photos hehe.
Sweetheart, this looks like such a colorful festival. Amazing that a university student with a colorful heart started something like this and it caught popularity! Ahhh…is it the short skirts? 😀